Wallpaper sample book holder



April 1957 1.. B. DAUTCH WALLPAPER SAMPLE BOOK HOLDER 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed April 1, 1965 INVENTOR.

LEWIS B. DAUTCH "IIIIWIII' I III ATTORNEYS April 25, 1967 B. DAUTCH WALLPAPER SAMPLE BOOK HOLDER 3 heets-Sheet 2 Filed April 1, 1965 l NVEN TOR.

ATTOPNEYS P 1967 L. a. DAUTCH 3,315,936

WALLPAPER SAMPLE BOOK HOLDER Filed April 1, 1965 3 Sheets-$heet O Q I 8 'f} 32 I If All J n I I I" INVENTOR.

LEWIS B DAUTGH BY ATTORNEYS United States Patent Lewis This invention relates to holding racks; and more particularly to a novel and improved quick-set-up type stand for cradling large books or the like so that the contents thereof may be readily scanned by manually moving the pages or leaves thereof from side to side. Still more specifically, the invention has for its primary object to provide an improved rack device, adapted to be shipped in knocked-down form, and supplied to wallpaper sales outlets for setting up on sales counters or the like for receiving in cradled form therein a wallpaper sample book; whereby customers may with improved ease and facility open the sample books and selectively view the leaves or pages thereof for comparison and pattern selection purposes. Other still more specific objects of the invention will appear from the following specification of one example of the invention, and the accompanying drawing wherein:

FIG. 1 is a front-top perspective view of one form of display rack of the invention in set-up form, showing how a wallpaper sample book or the like may be disposed thereon for viewing purposes;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged scale plan view thereof;

FIGS. 3, 4 are sectional views taken as suggested along lines 3-3 and 4-4 respectively, of FIG. 2; and

FIG. 5 is a perspective composite view showing the parts of the holding rack of the invention, in disassembled relation with the major components thereof shown in relatively disposed form.

As shown by way of example by the drawing herewith, the invention may be embodied in a structure fabricated entirely of sheet-like hard paper, plastic, metal, or wood panel parts, or the like. The parts are all cut or stamped or formed or otherwise shaped to include slots therein, adapting them to be interconnected by slide-fitting displacements of contiguous parts relative to one another. Thus, as shown in FIG. 5, the device may be designed to include five major component parts, comprising a base member designated generally lit; a front abutment member 12; a center abutment 14; a rear abutment 16, and a back boar-d portion 18. To assemble the device into operative form as shown in FIG. 1, a pair of internal partition members 20 and a pair of partition members 22 (only one of each being shown in FIG. 5) are provided.

The base member includes a flat bottom panel 24, a rear wall 26 bifurcated as indicated at 28 (FIG. 5) and formed at its top edge with a pair of flanges 30-30 leading forwardly into integrally formed downturned tabs 3232. The tabs are vertically slotted as shown at 33. At its front end the base member 10' is formed with an upstanding front wall 34 leading with a rearwardly directly horizontal ledge portion 36 terminating in a shoulder 37 leading to a reduced width downwardly inclined ramp portion 38 which is slotted as indicated at Sit-39. The shoulder portion 37 is slotted as shown at 4040.

The front abutment member 12 is of box-like form, open at top and bottom and comprising a front wall portion 42, side walls 33-33, and a back wall 34 slotted as indicated at 3-535 and at 36-36. The member 12 is conveniently fabricated by simply bending a piece of hard paper, plastic, metal or the like into the box-like form shown, and then stapling it together as shown at 37 (FIG. 5). The abutment members 14, 16 are generally constructed as in the manner of abutment 12, and it will be noted that the rear wall portions of abutments [2,

' FIG. 5. The partition members 20*, 20

14, 16 are all recessed to provide dihedral shaped upper edge surfaces arranged to complement the outspread contours of the cover and back portions of a wallpaper sample book when resting in cradled relation thereon. Note also that the abutments 14, 16 and the rear wall portion of the "base plate 10 are rectangularly recessed as indicated at 40 to accommodate in vertically slip-fitted relation therein, the bound front edge of a wallpaper sample book, when folded into closed position.

The base plate 10 and the abutments 12, 14, 16 are thus adapted to be relatively nested as shown in FIG. 1 by moving them into assembled relation as suggested by and 22, 22 are then pressed into interlocking positions, thereby holding the parts in the condition shown in FIG. 1; the partitions being slotted as shown at 42, 43, 44, 45 (FIG. 5) for this purpose; the back board 18 is then press-fitted down into assembled relation; the board 18 being provided with integral side legs 46 for this purpose, and the device is thereby completed to provide an extremely rugged and strong, yet light-weight, rack for display of wallpaper sample books or the like. Note that the back board 18 is keystone-notched as shown at 48 to enable a sample book or the like to be disposed in opened condition on the rack as shown by broken lines in FIG. 1 while the bottom edge of the book is resting against the ramp portion 38.

Thus, it will of course be appreciated that the invention provides a relatively inexpensive rack device for holding large books or the like in opened, wide-spread, position; whereby the leaves thereof may be easily turned and disposed fiatwise for convenient viewing thereof. The book is supported by the rack device in forwardly pitched attitude thereby disposing the book leaves at a convenient angle for viewing from forwardly thereof and slightly thereabove; while at the same time being firmly centered on the rack against sidewise displacements, and against any possibility of the book sliding forwardly off the rack. It will of course be understood that the rack parts may he made of any suitable material of sheet or platelike form such as heavy cardboard or the like; and that although only one specific form of the invention has been shown and described by way of example herein, various changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and the scope of the append-ed claims.

I claim:

1. A book holding rack comprising a plurality of edgewise standing plate-like members interfitted and interconnected in parallel-transverse relationships by means of slot formations whereby intersecting plates are disposed in slip-fitted interconnected relation, the upper ends of said plates being cut to define a forwardly pitched valleyshaped profile comprising the upper edge portions of said plate members thereby providing dihedrally opposed land formations adapted to support in outspread lying relation thereon the front and back cover portions of a book, the upper edges of the plate members in the region of intersection of the bottom apex of the valley-shaped profile being downwardly notched to receive in slip-fitting relation therein the back binding portion of the book, said rack having at its front upper edge portion a ledge device projecting vertically above said land formation profiles whereby to hold the book against downward and forward sliding movements.

2. A book holding rack comprising a plurality of edgewise upright standing sheet-like members interconnected in transverse relationships, the upper ends of said members being shaped to define a forwardly pitched valleyshaped profile comprising the upper edge portions of said members thereby providing dihedrally opposed support formations adapted to support the out-spread front and back cover portions of a book, said rack having a ledge device projecting vertically above said support formation profiles at the front of said rack whereby to hold the book against downward and forward sliding movements.

3. A book holding rack comprising a plurality of vertically standing sheet-like members comprising parallel disposed front and back members and parallel side members and intermediate members therebetween interconnected to provide an open top and bottom type box formation, the upper ends of said members being shaped to a forwardly pitched valley-shaped profile comprising the upper edge portions of said members thereby providing dihedrally opposed support devices adapted to support in out-spread lying relation thereon the cover portions of a book, the upper edges of the members in the region of intersection of the bottom apex of the valley-shaped profile being downwardly notched to receive in slip-fitting relation therein the back binding portion of the book, said front member including at its front upper edge portion a ledge device projecting vertically above said profile whereby to hold the book against downward and forward sliding movements.

4. A book holding rack comprising a plurality of edgewise standing plate-like members comprising front, back and intermediate parallel disposed members and opposite side and intermediate parallel disposed members interfitted and interconnected in parallel-transverse relationships by means of slot formations therein whereby intersecting members are disposed in slip-fitted interconnected relation, the upper ends of said members being shaped to a forwardly pitched valley-shaped profile comprising the upper edge portions of said members thereby providing dihedrally opposed support formations adapted to support in outspread lying relation thereon the front and back cover portions of a book, the upper edges of the members in the region of intersection of the bottom apex of the valley-shaped profile being downwardly notched to receive in slip-fitting relation therein the back binding portion of the book, said front member having at its upper edge a portion projecting vertically above said profile whereby to hold the book against downward and forward sliding movements.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 952,103 3/1910 Eghian 248-441 1,827,166 10/1931 Pharr 248-441 2,286,128 6/1942 Unger 129 -1 2,723,820 11/1955 Schulz et al. 248-474 2,726,835 12/1955 Hummel 248-459 CLAUDE A. LE ROY, Primary Examiner.

K. J. WINGERT, Assistant Examiner. 

1. A BOOK HOLDING RACK COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF EDGEWISE STANDING PLATE-LIKE MEMBERS INTERFITTED AND INTERCONNECTED IN PARALLEL-TRANSVERSE RELATIONSHIPS BY MEANS OF SLOT FORMATIONS WHEREBY INTERSECTING PLATES ARE DISPOSED IN SLIP-FITTED INTERCONNECTED RELATION, THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID PLATES BEING CUT TO DEFINE A FORWARDLY PITCHED VALLEYSHAPED PROFILE COMPRISING THE UPPER EDGE PORTIONS OF SAID PLATE MEMBERS THEREBY PROVIDING DIHERDRALLY OPPOSED LAND FORMATIONS ADAPTED TO SUPPORT IN OUTSPREAD LYING RELATION THEREON THE FRONT AND BACK COVER PORTIONS OF A BOOK, THE UPPER EDGES OF THE PLATE MEMBERS IN THE REGION OF INTERSECTION OF THE BOTTOM APEX OF THE VALLEY-SHAPED PROFILE BEING DOWNWARDLY NOTCHED TO RECEIVE IN SLIP-FITTING RELATION THEREIN THE BACK BINDING PORTION OF THE BOOK, SAID RACK HAVING AT ITS FRONT UPPER EDGE PORTION A LEDGE DEVICE PROJECTING VERTICALLY ABOVE SAID LAND FORMATION PROFILES WHEREBY TO HOLD THE BOOK AGAINST DOWNWARD AND FORWARD SLIDING MOVEMENTS. 